Two teenage boys died in a gas cylinder explosion in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur during Durga Puja celebration on Monday night

Of the 20 deaths, 10 were reported in the capital

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today warned against any sort of anarchy and vandalism in the name of movement, saying her government will not tolerate such destructive activities

A fire broke out at a jute mill factory in Khulna’s Rupsha upazila this afternoon

A-list Hollywood celebrities including Cate Blanchett, Joaquin Phoenix, Ramy Youssef and Andrew Garfield penned a letter to US President Joe Biden on Friday, urging him to call for a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas

The president also stressed the urgency of getting relief to Palestinian civilians in Gaza who lack food, water and medicine

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas yesterday hosted an event for the members of the 'Media Freedom Coalition' and senior editors from major Bangladeshi news outlets to show support for a free and independent media

The slit-throat body of a vegetable trader was found near his home in Dinajpur early today.

With its surprise attack against Israel, Hamas has violently shifted the world's eyes back to the Palestinians and dealt a severe blow to momentum to secure a landmark US-brokered deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia

The capital base of state-owned commercial banks rose while it fell for private lenders at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022-23, Bangladesh Bank data showed.

At least 18 people were killed and nearly 100 were missing today after heavy rains caused a Himalayan glacial lake in northeast India to burst its banks

Workers of a readymade garment factory this morning blocked Begum Rokeya Sarani in Shewrapara area of Mirpur protesting the factory’s closure and demanding two months’ unpaid wages..Mohtamim Hasan, assistant commissioner of Mirpur Zone, said the workers of JK Fashion began the blockade aro

The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat.

Two people were killed and five others injured in a collision between a passenger bus and a battery-run easy bike on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Gopalganj’s Muksudpur upazila today

Bangladesh’s former cricketer Nafees Iqbal had been with the national side as team manager recently. He detailed in a Facebook post why he left the Bangladesh dressing room during the third ODI between Bangladesh and New Zealand at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. Nafees said that he had maintained all the protocols before leaving the dressing room in the middle of the match.

A senior bureaucrat of the Indian government, who had reportedly ordered the emptying of an entire stadium of athletes so that her pet dog can take walks, has been compulsorily retired

KR Ship Recycling Yard, a sister concern of KR Group, has received "Green Yard" certificate recently, the authorities announced yesterday

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq today said that the law and order situation in the capital is quite stable at present and crime is under control

The commerce ministry has asked the National Board of Revenue to further rationalise duty rates imposed on sugar and edible oil imports, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam yesterday alleged that the government decided to procure 10 Airbus aircraft to get kickbacks.